Documenti di Didattica
Documenti di Professioni
Documenti di Cultura
By Alice Meynell
Author of “Poems”
p. 4Copyright, 1901
By John Lane
All rights reserved
p. 5TO
A. T.
p. 7Contents:
The Shepherdess
“I am the Way”
Via, et Veritas, et Vita
Why wilt Thou Chide?
The Lady Poverty
The Fold
Cradle-song at Twilight
The Roaring Frost
Parentage
The Modern Mother
West Wind in Winter
November Blue
Chimes
Unto us a Son is given
A Dead Harvest
p. 8The Two Poets
A Poet’s Wife
Veneration of Images
At Night
p. 9THE SHEPHERDESS
She walks—the lady of my delight—
A shepherdess of sheep.
Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white;
She guards them from the steep.
She feeds them on the fragrant height,
Later Poems 1
Later Poems
And folds them in for sleep.
I cannot see—
I, child of process—if there lies
An end for me,
Full of repose, full of replies.
Oh strong, Oh pure!
As Yea makes happier loves secure,
I vow thee this
Unique rejection of a kiss.
p. 14I guard for thee
This jealous sad monopoly.
I seal this honour thine. None dare
Hope for a part in thy despair.
p. 17THE FOLD
Behold,
The time is now! Bring back, bring back
Thy flocks of fancies, wild of whim.
Oh lead them from the mountain-track—
Thy frolic thoughts untold.
Oh bring them in—the fields grow dim—
And let me be the fold.
Behold,
The time is now! Call in, O call
Thy posturing kisses gone astray
For scattered sweets. Gather them all
p. 18CRADLE-SONG AT TWILIGHT
The child not yet is lulled to rest.
Too young a nurse, the slender Night
So laxly holds him to her breast
That throbs with flight.
Where will they close their wings and cease their cries—
Between what warming seas and conquering skies—
And fold, and fall?
p. 20PARENTAGE
“When Augustus Cæsar legislated against the unmarried citizens of Rome, he declared
them to be, in some sort, slayers of the people.”
Unhoped, unsought!
A little tenderness, this mother thought
The utmost of her meed
She looked for gratitude; content indeed
With thus much that her nine years’ love had bought.
Oh filial light
Strong in these childish eyes, these new, these bright
Intelligible stars! Their rays
Are near the constant earth, guides in the maze,
Natural, true, keen in this dusk of days.
p. 26NOVEMBER BLUE
The colour of the electric lights has a strange effect in giving a complementary tint to the air
in the early evening.—Essay on London.
p. 28CHIMES
Brief, on a flying night,
From the shaken tower,
A flock of bells take flight,
And go with the hour.
p. 30Sudden as sweet
Come the expected feet.
All joy is young, and new all art,
And He, too, Whom we have by heart.
Two memories,
Two powers, two promises, two silences
Closed in this cry, closed in these thousand leaves
p. 34Articulate. This sudden hour retrieves
The purpose of the past,
Separate, apart—embraced, embraced at last.
p. 36VENERATION OF IMAGES
Thou man, first-comer, whose wide arms entreat,
Gather, clasp, welcome, bind,
Lack, or remember! whose warm pulses beat
With love of thine own kind;
p. 37AT NIGHT
Home, home from the horizon far and clear,
Hither the soft wings sweep;
Flocks of the memories of the day draw near
The dovecote doors of sleep.
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